Alison Haislip

After a famous crossword puzzle master is found in an urban fracking site, the Jeffersonian team investigates puzzle champ’s fellow players in order to track down the killer. After discovering that the victim was suffering from a mental illness when he died, the team realizes the case is much more complicated than it seemed. Meanwhile, a very pregnant Daisy seeks comfort from her doula, Valentina , and the newest member of the Jeffersonian family arrives.

When Gibbs and McGee travel to Russia to escort a computer engineer home, the mission is compromised and they must hide from a Russian mercenary group that is hunting them.

NCIS looks into the disappearance of a Navy lieutenant commander who is working on foreign cyber threats with the NSA; the team celebrates the holidays.